Word: hopelessness
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...hopeless was the attack that Union soldiers pinned their names and addresses on their backs before starting. Eventually they withdrew. Said Lee: "Our success, . . . under the blessing of God [has been] all that we could expect...
...most disappointing. It might be supposed that students would be more than willing to profit from the guidance of a teacher of Dr. Davison's renown. It might be presumed that Harvard students would enjoy learning to sing their own songs. Certainly such experience would save many moments of hopeless embarrassment at banquets and reunions. At other colleges as the press comment from the Princetonian in the next column indicates, the love of a custom of song services is so deeply in-trenched that violent protests are made at any disturbance of them...
...citizenship, and by pinning these ideals on some young Chicagoan, give them a humman interest and a currency which they would not have otherwise. In confining the contest to boys between fourteen and eighteen years the Federation runs the risk, of course, of selecting one who will prove a hopeless failure, since his later training is subject to human caprice, but it will succeed in formulating a definite creed of citizenship...
...sold over the Arab fellahs' (peasants) heads by their rich brethren. Willingly they part with dry belts and swamps only to see them fertilized by irrigation and drainage. All Arabdom sees its native land being snatched from it. As between the Arabs and the Jews, since cooperation seems hopeless, there is no hope of reconciliation. That is why last week's ceremonies at Jerusalem loomed large from different angles in Arab and Jewish eyes...
Senator Ferris (Democrat): "T think the Vice President has the lesson of his life coming to him. . . . The rules of the Senate are hopeless; improvement will have to be deferred to the next world...